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4B – Daily News – Monday, December 13, 2010 PEANUTS® By Charles Schultz Today in History By The Associated Press Today is Monday, Dec. 13, the 347th day of 2010. There are 18 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 13, 1862, Union forces suffered a major defeat to the Confederates in the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg. On this date: In 1642, Dutch navigator Abel Tasman sighted present- DILBERT® By Scott Adams day New Zealand. its charter. In 1769, Dartmouth College, in New Hampshire, received In 1835, Phillips Brooks, the American Episcopal bishop who wrote the words to ‘‘O Little Town of Bethlehem,’’ was born in Boston. In 1918, President Woodrow Wilson arrived in France, becom- ing the first chief executive to visit Europe while in office. In 1928, George Gershwin’s musical work ‘‘An Ameri- can in Paris’’ had its premiere, at Carnegie Hall in New York. In 1944, during World War II, the U.S. cruiser Nashville was badly damaged in a Japanese kamikaze attack that claimed more than 130 lives. GARFIELD® By Jim Davis In 1978, the Philadelphia Mint began stamping the Susan B. Anthony dollar, which went into circulation in July 1979. In 1981, authorities in Poland imposed martial law in a crackdown on the Solidarity labor movement. (Martial law formally ended in 1983.) In 1994, an American Eagle commuter plane crashed short of Raleigh-Durham International Airport in North Carolina, killing 15 of the 20 people on board. In 2003, Saddam Hussein was captured by U.S. forces while hiding in a hole under a farmhouse in Adwar, Iraq, near his hometown of Tikrit. Ten years ago: Republican George W. Bush claimed the SHOE By Chris Cassatt and Gary Brookins presidency a day after the U.S. Supreme Court shut down fur- ther recounts of disputed ballots in Florida; Democrat Al Gore conceded, delivering a call for national unity. Seven inmates made a daring escape from a maximum security prison in Kenedy, Texas. (Six of the ‘‘Texas 7’’ were later recaptured; one killed himself; the others were sentenced to death for killing a Dal- las-area police officer during a robbery. One of the six, Michael Rodriguez, dropped his appeals and was executed in 2008.) Five years ago: Crips gang co-founder Stanley Tookie Williams, whose supporters argued had redeemed himself inside prison, was executed in California for killing four people in robberies. Iraqis living abroad began voting in the country’s parliamentary elections. BLONDIE® By Dean Young and Stan Drake BEETLE BAILEY® By Mort Walker One year ago: The Senate passed, 57-35, a $1.1 trillion spending bill with increased budgets for vast areas of the fed- eral government, including health, education, law enforcement and veterans’ programs. An attacker hurled a statuette at Ital- ian premier Silvio Berlusconi, striking him in the face and leaving the stunned 73-year-old leader with a broken nose and two broken teeth. Today’s Birthdays: Former Secretary of State George P. Shultz is 90. Actor-comedian Dick Van Dyke is 85. Actor Christo- pher Plummer is 81. Country singer Buck White is 80. Music/film producer Lou Adler is 77. Movie producer Richard Zanuck is 76. Singer John Davidson is 69. Actress Kathy Garver (TV: ‘‘Family Affair’’) is 65. Singer Ted Nugent is 62. Rock musi- cian Jeff ‘‘Skunk’’ Baxter is 62. Country musician Ron Get- man is 62. Actor Robert Lindsay is 61. Country singer-musi- cian Randy Owen is 61. Actress Wendie Malick is 60. Agri- culture Secretary Tom Vilsack is 60. Federal Reserve Chair- man Ben Bernanke is 57. Country singer John Anderson is 56. Singer-songwriter Steve Forbert is 56. Singer-actor Mor- ris Day is 54. Actor Steve Buscemi (boo-SEH’-mee) is 53. Actor Johnny Whitaker is 51. Actor-comedian Jamie Foxx is 43. Actor Bart Johnson is 40. TV personality Debbie Matenopou- los is 36. Rock singer-musician Thomas Delonge is 35. Actor James Kyson Lee is 35. Actress Chelsea Hertford is 29. Rock singer Amy Lee (Evanescence) is 29. Country singer Taylor Swift is 21. Thought for Today: ‘‘To know how to say what others HAGAR the Horrible® only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers — or both.’’ — Elizabeth Charles, British writer (1828-1896). By Chris Browne RUBES® By Leigh Rubin ZITS BY JERRY SCOTT & JIM BORGMAN FRANK & ERNEST® By Bob Thaves ALLEY OOP